"A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine."
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"Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection."
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"Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil."
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"You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
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"magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it"
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"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different"
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"An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected."
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"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead."
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"There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without."
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"... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false."
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"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party"
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"Do what is right, though the world may perish."
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"God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them."
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"Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope for the world. If immoral, there is not only no hope, but no prospect of anything but destruction of all that has been accomplished during the last 5,000 years."
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"The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power."
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"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship."
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"The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it."
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"Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good."
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"I may have a feather duster down my pants."
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"The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
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